Maximilian Kolbe (Religious Leader) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Maximilian Maria Kolbe, revered as Saint Maximilian Kolbe, is a Polish Catholic priest and a Franciscan monk who volunteered to die for a foreigner in the German extermination camp of Auschwitz, located in Poland with German troops. occupied during World War II. He actively promoted the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin, founded and supervised the Niepokalanów monastery near Warsaw, ran an amateur radio station, founded or directed a number of other organizations and publications. On October 10, 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of charity. The Catholic Church venerates him as a patron saint of radio amateurs, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. John Paul II declared him "the patron saint of our difficult century". His holiday was August 14, the date of his death.

Born	Rajmund Kolbe, January 8, 1894, Zduńska Wola, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	August 14, 1941, Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Beatified	17 October 1971, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI
Canonized	10 October 1982, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine	Basilica of the Omni-mediatress of All Glories
Feast	14 August
Attributes	Franciscan habit, the Rycerz Niepokalanej, Nazi concentration prison uniform, Nazi concentration camp badge, crucifix, rosary, and a palm of martyrdom
Patronage	Families, recovery from drug addiction, prisoners, amateur radio operators, journalists, political prisoners, pro-life movement, Esperantists, and Militia Immaculatae

Religious Leader Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894 in Poland (He dies at the age of 47, on August 14, 1941).

He was valiantly substituted for a stranger sentenced to death at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, and was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1971 and eventually canonized by Pope John Paul II.

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Maximilian Kolbe was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1894 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Horse (馬).

He stated that when he was a child, the Virgin Mary appeared to him and asked him whether he wanted to be a martyr.

Before being arrested in 1941, he hid 2,000 Jews from the Nazis.

He was born in the Polish town of Zduska Wola.

^CriminalAdolf Hitler's Nazi regime constructed Auschwitz, a concentration camp where he died.

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